Medical device manufacturers are under pressure to reduce costs and improve margins and outsourcing at least some operations is increasingly a tactic for the top original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). There are hundreds of firms who specialize in device making operations and many more companies that do some medical device work.

Kalorama's Contract Manufacturing in Medical Devices (Materials, Processing, Electronics, Finished Products) is a complete study of the market and opportunity for outsourcing finished medical devices or a part of a medical device. It looks at the OEM contract manufacturing market revenues by therapeutic area (cardiology, respiratory, etc.), as well as by segment of device manufacturing (chemicals, implantable devices, semiconductors, metal molding, etc.) This allows those looking at this growing market to get a complete picture of the OEM market. In this one volume, device companies will find Kalorama's estimate of outsourcing market sizes for Raw Materials & Material Processing, as well as for Finished Clinical Products for the following therapeutic areas:

Cardiovascular

General Surgery

Imaging

I.V. Diagnostics

Ophthalmology

Orthopedics

Respiratory

Neurology

Urology

Market size and forecast to 2015 is also estimated for the following CM service categories: